Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hala Safil, 21, a Yazidi activist who was enslaved by Islamic State group militants for three years and lives in a displaced camp, ...

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk province, Aug. 7, 2014.Ari Jalal—Reuters On the peaks of the Sinjar ...

To hear President Obama tell it, one might think that recent bombing raids by the US against jihadist positions between Mosul and Erbil in northern Iraq have already removed the threat of ...

Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of Mosul, arrive at Dohuk province, Aug. 4, 2014 The news coming out of Iraq is really ...

A young Yazidi girl rests at the Iraq-Syrian border. Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters It was well before dawn on Aug. 3, 2014, when fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) streamed out ...

In explaining his authorization of U.S. airstrikes in Iraq this week, President Obama emphasized the need to prevent a humanitarian disaster in Northern Iraq, where Sunni militants with the Islamic ...

Northern Iraq's Yazidi community that suffered so terribly under Islamic State group persecution celebrated on Friday as it inaugurated a restored temple to the sound of traditional drums and flutes.

The Yazidis who remained in Iraq, including Gares and his lifelong friend Sulaiman Murad, joined U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion to help overthrow Hussein’s Ba'athist regime. “We believed in ...

ISIS on Wednesday released more than 200 Yazidis, a minority group whose members were killed, captured and displaced when the Islamist terror organization overtook ...

A massacre of members of the Yazidi minority in the Iraqi town of Kocho made headlines last week. Around 80 men were killed by militants from the so-called Islamic State, the extremist group that has ...